On tonights episode, Allie and Em tackle "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster, one of the first science fiction novels to date! A story about a utopia turned dystopia where all your needs are met in a room of isolation (a pandemic dream). They talk politics, sociology, and the TAKS test throughout the episode because the story focuses on one large factor: relationships and the things that relate us to one another. Kuno and Vashti's relationship is consistently at odds and the machine is what stands between them. So join us as we throw some sand at some cogs and ask questions in relation to spatial identity, Human vs Nature, and what we owe each other. 

Our next episode will be over "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Link found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834

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